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Flix Engine 8.0.17.1 is now available. This version contains the following bug fix:

• Fixes a bug that caused a grid pattern of gray dots to appear on scene change to a mostly white frame when using BASE_H264PROFILE with FE2_CODEC_H264.

Note: This version of Flix Engine for Windows requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package ATL Security Update. If installation on Windows fails with the message “Failure registering Flix Engine dll”, then you may be missing this dependency. Download and install the 32-bit (x86) package from Microsoft at:

http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?familyid=766A6AF7-EC73-40FF-B072-9112BAB119C2&displaylang=en

See the changelog (linux|windows) for complete details on each release.

Customers can download this version from http://flix.on2.com/download

Flix Engine 8.0.16.1 for Linux and Windows is now available.

Changes in this release include:

• Allow FE2_PNGEX_WIDTH and FE2_PNGEX_HEIGHT to be queried (FE2_FILTER_PNGEX).
• Updated mencoder source code with the following changes [LINUX]:
  • Adds further QCELP support and the ability to transcode FLV5 (VP6 + alpha) source.
  • Flush any pending packets at end of file to avoid audio/video truncation in certain cases.
  • Relocated common components to mpcommon.c
  • Exit immediately when no audio or video stream is found.
  • For compatibility with prior releases, revert patch r30265 and avoid untested ffwmapro.

See the changelog (linux|windows) for complete details on each release.

Customers can download this version from:
http://flix.on2.com/download

Flix Engine 8.0.16.0 for Linux and Windows is now available.

Changes in this release include:

• Improved the PNG Image Export filter to allow for simpler preservation of the aspect ratio for thumbnails. (FE2_FILTER_PNGEX)
• Updated mencoder source code with the following changes [LINUX]:
  • Allow files smaller than 32kB to be inspected, providing behavior similar to r27474 snapshot.
  • Fix bug causing rotation of 180 to go unreported.
• Change the glibc requirement back to version 2.3.2. The previous release of Flix Engine (8.0.15.3) had unintentionally added dependencies on glibc-2.3.4. [LINUX]
• Fix resample filter to avoid over reading 8 bits per sample. Fixes potential crash. [WINDOWS]
• Fix bug in the FLV splitter (flvsplit.dll v2.7.0.4) related to duplicate timestamp handling. [WINDOWS]
• Fix bug in QT source filter (On2QTSource.dll v2.7.0.4) causing timeout and potential crash with Apple Pro Res files. [WINDOWS]

See the changelog (linux|windows) for complete details on each release.

Customers can download this version from:
http://flix.on2.com/download

Flix Engine 8.0.15.3 for Linux and Windows is now available.

Changes in this release include:

• Upgrade to libpng-1.2.37 to address uninitialized memory read bug that may have security implications.
• Automatically add the audio resample filter (FE2_FILTER_RESAMPLE) when input audio has more than 2 channels.
• Automatically add the rotate filter (FE2_FILTER_ROTATE) for input files that specify a presentation rotation angle. Improves support for iPhone 3GS ‘tallscreen’ video. [Linux]
• Updated mencoder source code to r29460 with the following changes [LINUX]:
  • Leave audio frame segmentation to libogg, allowing non-zero start times to be properly transferred to the output (oggpcm.c).
  • Patch to allow reporting of presentation rotation angle.
  • Patch to improve detection and reporting of empty audio streams.
  • Patch to allow source timestamps to be passed on to ogg muxer.
  • Favor is now given to LAVF ISO demuxer over demux_mov as it addresses many issues including problems with various clips containing AAC/QCELP audio along with some sync issues.
• Fix bug that caused failure with input video with 1 frame, or input for which duration could not be retrieved. [Windows]

Note: This version of Flix Engine for Windows requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86). If installation on Windows fails with the message “Failure registering Flix Engine dll”, then you may be missing this dependency. Download this package directly from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=200b2fd9-ae1a-4a14-984d-389c36f85647

See the changelog (linux|windows) for complete details on each release.

Customers can download this version from:
http://flix.on2.com/download

Flix Engine 8.0.15.2 for Linux and Windows is now available.

Bug fixes in this release include:

• Updated mencoder source code with the following changes [LINUX]:
  • Do not report empty audio streams as this affects default output stream selection.
  • Temporary patch for lavf/mov demuxer.
  • Add support for extension profiles and file-specific configuration files.
  • Fix potential crash with MP3 when accessing fixed size array with out-of-bounds index.
  • Fix a regression bug: files with truncated audio data, but complete indexes, would result in video truncation.
  • Avoid crash should quicktime decoder be paired with the lavf demuxer.
  • Temporarily rely on binary codecs to decode cook audio (RM).
  • AVCHD support: Allow libavformat to demux MTS/M2TS files (often the container for AVCHD).
  • Improve handling of multiple duplicate error messages.
• Fix another situation that may cause a hang when opening a file by adding a timeout value [Linux].
• If the input file’s aspect ratio is available on open it will now
  be made available for use in FE2_FILTER_SCALE [Windows].

See the changelog (linux|windows) for complete details on each release.

Customers can download this version from:
http://flix.on2.com/download